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Twenty-two scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America will convene at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, April 11-12, 2025, to present papers and discuss current research on medical ideas and practices in Asia.

Participants will address how understandings of the body and its various senses in premodern and modern contexts shape healing outcomes, religious experiences, gender relations, and sociopolitical processes. The conference will also explore social, political, religious, and cultural contexts that frame and change perceptions of sensorial experience and embodied practice.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach and paying attention to both local features and transregional knowledge exchange, the conference is intended to foster fruitful conversation that advances crucial Asian perspectives on the body and the senses and offers fresh insights on the particular Asian societies under study.

The keynote speaker will be Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor Emerita of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Professor Farquhar's acclaimed books and articles examine traditional medicine, popular culture and everyday life n contemporary China.

Other participants include researchers at various stages of their careers, from advanced PhD students to senior scholars and independent scholars.

The conference is convened by , Associate Professor of History at UB, and , Postdoctoral Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and incoming Assistant Professor of History at UB. Funding is provided by the UB Asia Research Institute and Office of International Education.

Conference sponsors include the UB Asia Research Institute, Office of International Education, Department of History, Asian Studies Program, Office of Global Health Initiatives in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Department of Anthropology.